3d Cart Store Templates

What is a 3d Cart Template

3d Cart Stores offers a hosted cart solution. They provide all of the "back-end" data support for their stores. They also have free "default" templates that you can use. We offer a custom look for your 3d Cart Store, by "skinning" the store with our template. Our templates don't touch your data base or any of your information, they only "dress" up your store with a new look. Your template package will come with all the images needed for the "look" of your web, plus the "frame.html," the html coding that calls in data from 3d Cart. Some of our templates come with a "home.html" page as well.

I've bought the template, what's next?

You'll download the zip file and save it in an easily accessible place. Your desktop is a good place for the zip file. You'll need a zip program in order to unzip the file. At Professional Store Templates, we use WinZip. You can Google "Free unzip programs" and find lots of them. Don't delete the zip file, just save it. You never know when the web gremlins will mess up your web, so always keep a backup!

After you've unzipped the file, you'll find the template inside. Put this folder in a place you can find it when you are ready to edit the pages.

You'll need to retrieve the ftp information from an email that was sent by 3d Cart. You'll need this information when you upload your information to the server. You can use a couple of free ftp programs. We've used "Filezilla" to upload some of our templates. We also use WS_FTP Professional to upload files to the server.

Getting your name on the web

Most of our templates use images for the business name. Some of them use just fonts. If you have a "nameplate" or "logo" image in the images folder, we will add your name to that image at no cost to you. We use the same font and color shown on the sample web unless you tell us differently. If you want a font that we don't have, and we have hundreds, you'll need to send us the font.

Java Script Slide Shows

The Java Script slide show that is included in many of our templates, is easy to work with. You have four things to do:

Pick out images you like for your store.
Size them to the size indicated in the template.
Name the images the same as ours... usually; mainimage1.jpg, mainimage2.jpg, mainimage3.jpg
Save them in the images folder, overwriting our files.

If you don't have an image sizing program, you can go Picknik to size your images: http://www.picnik.com/. Remember, it's better to resize them than to just grab the corners and pull them down to size. The browser will load the full sized image and show it smaller. The load time for the page will be much longer.